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  1. So are 1 out of 5 CEOs of all major corporations

    CEOs don't carry launch codes for nuclear missiles.

  2. Re:Pay attention. on FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet the Democrats voted for it as well. That is how it passed. There is no "side" here.

    Republicans have controlled congress since 2010.

  3. Re:Pay attention. on FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Bear this in mind. A Democrat did this with an incoming Republican President.

    NOT when it was an incoming Democrat President.

    Yes, Senator Wyden did it when Barack Obama was president-elect, too.

  4. Pay attention. on FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Democratic Senator Ron Wyden attempted three times to delay the changes which, will take effect on Thursday and allow U.S. judges will be able to issue search warrants that give the FBI the authority to remotely access computers in any jurisdiction, potentially even overseas. His efforts were blocked by Senator John Cornyn of Texas,

    Bear this in mind: A Democrat tried to block the FBI from hacking any computer anywhere and a Republican tried to stop it.

    And yes, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has been opposing this snooping since he entered the Senate in 1996, so no, it doesn't have anything to do with Donald Trump or President Obama.

  5. Re:Democrats are the enemy on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.

    And what exactly are you gonna do about that, you fuckwit?

    If you come, you better come heavy. Because Democrats have been dealing with poncy little whigs like you since Andrew Jackson.

  6. Why is this even showing up on a tech forum?

    Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?

  7. I've got "Trump sends nation goatse SMS" as the center square on my bingo card.

  8. Re:I don't mean to belittle you on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you people do field trips when you were children?

    When I was a child, our field trips were to actual fields, where we helped plant the potatoes and bale hay. I was three when I got my first mule and we used to plow five acres before breakfast. Once I reached five years of age, we ate the mule and I pulled the plow my damn self.

    No sir, we didn't have any fancy "field trips" where you visit some industrial park and have some pencil neck tell you how you too can grow up and sit in a cubicle picking pencil shavings out of your ass.

  9. Congratulations, you have been personally trolled by the president

    Congratulations, you have elected a president who trolls citizens.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  10. At least three backups, Iceland, Russia and China.

    And a big tarball on The Pirate Bay.

  11. isnt canada still technically ruled by the queen of england??

    No, not really. It's a complicated mess of tradition and convenience, but Canada could tell Queen Elizabeth to go blow and there would be no consequences. In the rare occasions where she acts on anything (and I mean rare), she has to follow a council of Canadians.

    Saying the Queen technically rules Canada is like saying God technically rules the US. It's easy to disprove.

  12. I'm not sure how it feels. I voted for the pot smoking heart attack victim. Good old 'Governor Veto'.

    Veto Corleone.

  13. But where were these concerns about "government surveillance" not going away when Pres. Obama was expanding them,

    To be fair, Obama got a break because he wasn't certifiably nutso. That was our mistake: believing a minority of the American people wouldn't next elect someone who believes you should take away someone's citizenship for exercising their First Amendment rights.

    https://twitter.com/realDonald...

  14. He's elected president. Not dictator.

    He believes he can walk on water and chew gum at the same time.

  15. How about re-doing the statistics with manned space launches.

    Why?

  16. Re:Yes, but it doesn't matter on Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The story you are quoting has been proven wrong. Google it.

    Googled it. Story is correct.

  17. Re:Not just law on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the extreme-left BBC

    You've never watched the BBC, have you?

  18. Re:Doubleplusgood! on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    he's not particularly PC

    I don't know if you follow the news over there in Russia, but apparently President-Elect Urinal Cake is very PC when it comes to burning the American flag.

    https://twitter.com/realDonald...

    Of course, he'll have to deal with that pesky Constitution, but I'm sure Trump won't let that stand in his way.

  19. I think you mean 75% of the country. The thought HRC was well-supported, but it turns out only 25% of the country (or less) actually supported her. This means that these pundits were (and still are) out of touch with the 75% of the country who did not vote for her.

    Trump's 62mil votes is not "75% of the country", unless you're using geographic area. And just so you know, land mass doesn't really have political opinions, you numpty.

  20. That must be why France and Germany have large-scale nuclear accidents daily, while nothing bad ever happened in the state-controlled power stations in the Soviet Union.

    French nuclear plants are primarily owned and run by the government.

    Électricité de France (EDF) — the country's main electricity generation and distribution company — manages the country's nuclear power plants.[5] EDF is substantially owned by the French government, with around 85% of EDF shares in government hands

  21. Re:That's not even all on Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant 'Clean-Up Costs Double,' Approaching $200 Billion (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is capitalism: when you invest into a company, you can win if there are profits, but you can also loose if the company goes bankrupt.

    A solar panel never gave anyone radiation poisoning.

  22. This is capitalism: when you invest into a company, you can win if there are profits, but you can also loose if the company goes bankrupt.

    That's old-fashioned capitalism, and it's been dead for decades.

    In today's late-stage capitalism, you can win if there are profits, and if the company goes bankrupt, you can win bigger.

  23. You see, the thing is, nuclear *is* a great idea.

    It is unless you have for-profit corporations building and running them.

  24. Re:Clearly we have too much land and too few starv on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean the stuff that should be plowed back in or allowed to decompose in place in to become next year's fertilizer?

    Don't worry. The incoming president will make sure we have plenty of fertilizer.

  25. That partially goes to show you how out of touch pundits and comedians are with half of the country.

    I think you mean 20% of the country.